Generally, "security by obscurity" doesn't work when the secure asset is drawing attention to itself... with Hellfire missiles, for instance.
-- Steve can't believe that the Pentagon, of all people, didn't think others would be able to intercept an unencrypted video signal. (I think they're calling it "TV" now, General.)
Surely - as is the argument with Gary McKinnon - if there is no security then there is no hacking?
An open signal is not hackable. There's nothing to hack. It's a bit bloody stupid complaining that people are looking in through your very big, brightly lit open window.
I quite like Danish law - case law there holds that breaking ineffectual DRM is by definition not a crime, and that the definition of "ineffectual" is "can be broken".
*nods* I am quite definitely agreeing with you. Clearly the Danes [much like their Norwegian friends] are on to something with this whole 'sensible' lark
this whole new cost saving approach - spend billions on hardwear, then don't secure it - is really getting quite funny.
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Date: 2009-12-17 03:35 pm (UTC)-- Steve can't believe that the Pentagon, of all people, didn't think others would be able to intercept an unencrypted video signal. (I think they're calling it "TV" now, General.)
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Date: 2009-12-18 01:57 am (UTC)An open signal is not hackable. There's nothing to hack. It's a bit bloody stupid complaining that people are looking in through your very big, brightly lit open window.
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Date: 2009-12-18 02:00 am (UTC)I quite like Danish law - case law there holds that breaking ineffectual DRM is by definition not a crime, and that the definition of "ineffectual" is "can be broken".
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Date: 2009-12-18 02:04 am (UTC)Clearly the Danes [much like their Norwegian friends] are on to something with this whole 'sensible' lark
this whole new cost saving approach - spend billions on hardwear, then don't secure it - is really getting quite funny.